[kristopolous]

Social networks and marketplaces are the hardest things to get going

[myfriendnewton]

That's one of the things that makes Ello's story a bit sad. It started out as a community of people that had this natural gravity, and the early community was admirably dedicated to the experiment.

[edhelas]

*centralized and siloed social-networks

Federated, standard and decentralized network just live by themselves :)

[forbiddenvoid]

That doesn't make sense. Federated social networks have the same hard problem as centralized ones: social networks require people.

The part that's hard is the people, not the technology. Centralization and federation have nothing to do with it.